At age 27 and after hitting just .217 for San Antonio last season, 3B Jake Blackwood wasn't exactly at the top of the Padres' prospect list.

But he's starting to draw some attention this season.

He pushed his average to .312 after a three-hit, four-RBI night in the Missions' 10-5 win over Corpus Christi on Tuesday.

Blackwood pushed his RBI total to a team-leading 23 in 32 games.

Drafted by the Marlins in 2006, he was released and was in independent ball in 2010.

He signed with the Giants as a free agent that winter, but was taken by the Padres in the Rule 5 Draft before he put on a San Francisco uniform.

Around the farm:

Triple-A Tucson (15-17): T-PADRES 6, Albuquerque 2 - After allowing six earned runs in 10 1/3 innings over his last two starts, RHP Sean O'Sullivan (2-2, 4.71 ERA) allowed just one earned run over six innings Tuesday against the Isotopes. LHP Colt Hynes and RHPs Nick Vincent and Miles Mikolas eached pitched a scoreless inning to preserve the win. 2B Dean Anna (.333), 3B Jonathan Galvez (.274) and C Rene Rivera (.313) all had two hits with Anna driving in two.

Double-A San Antonio (16-16): MISSIONS 10, Corpus Christi 5 – A night after being shut out, the Missions scored four times in the first inning and banged out 17 hits. Six players had multi-hit games, including RF Rico Noel (.228) and C Eddy Rodriguez (.293), who had three each, and CF Reymond Fuentes (.306), LF Everett Williams (.301) and 2B Anthony Contteras (.158), who had two. LHP Jose DePaula (2-3, 2.89 ERA) gave up four runs in the first inning, then spun shutout ball over the next five innings. RHP Josh Geer (3.60 ERA) worked three innings to earn his second save of the season.

High Single-A Lake Elsinore (9-21): STORM 8, Lancaster 5 - The Storm blew a 4-2 lead, then rallied for three runs in the eighth inning and one in the ninth to win for just the ninth time in 30 games. 1B Lee Orr (.333), 3B Duanel Jones (.264) and C Robert Kral (.316) drove in runs in the eighth-inning rally. Kral had a pair of RBIs in the game while 2B Cory Spangenberg (.303) had a pair of doubles, RF Yeison Asencio (.252) drove in three. RHP James Needy (2.81 ERA) allowed just one hit and one earned run over five innings, but walked five. Luis De La Cruz (2-3, 5.00 ERA) got the win and RHP Johnny Barbato (4.91 ERA) pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his third save.